Samsung and its carrier partners announced availability and pricing details for the Gear S smartwatch today. AT&T and Sprint will offer the device starting November 7, but T-Mobile won’t sell it until November 9. Pricing for the wearable varies by carrier. The full retail price is $350. AT&T is offering it for $200 with a […]
Samsung debuted a new smartwatch that can make and receive voice calls, as well as send and receive messages thanks to built-in 3G radios. The Gear S is based on Samsung’s Tizen platform and features a 2-inch, curved Super AMOLED display with 360 x 480 pixels. In addition to 3G, the Gear S includes Bluetooth […]
Samsung today further delayed the launch of its first Tizen phone in Russia. The company said it needs to “further enhance [the] Tizen ecosystem” before the phone can be released, which strongly suggests there aren’t enough apps for the platform. The device was expected to debut at a developer conference in Moscow earlier this month, […]
Samsung this week delayed plans to launch its Tizen-based smartphone in Russia. The Samsung Z, which the company announced in June, was expected to make an appearance at a Tizen developer conference held in Moscow this week. Samsung cancelled the device’s debut at the last minute, saying only “the smartphone will appear on the Russian […]
Fleksy, a creator of third-party keyboards for Android and iOS, has released an SMS messaging app for the Samsung Gear 2. Fleksy Messenger allows owners of the Tizen smartwatch to send text messages directly from the watch itself, complete with a miniaturized onscreen keyboard for entering text, without requiring the user to use their smartphone. […]
Samsung today announced the Samsung Z, the first smartphone to run its home-grown Tizen platform. The phone strongly resembles Samsung’s Android smartphones and will launch in Russia during the third quarter of the year. Samsung has spent years developing Tizen as an alternative to Android, though it has delayed the launch of Tizen-based phones several […]
Samsung has committed to releasing a smartphone based on its Tizen platform by the end of the second quarter. Speaking to Reuters,Yoon Han-kil, SVP of Samsung’s product strategy, said two Tizen-based devices will arrive this year. The first will be a high-end handset and the second will target the middle of the market. It’s unlikely […]
Samsung today made a software developer kit for its new Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches available to app writers. Developers will be able to use the SDK to create their own apps for the two smart wearables. The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo don’t run Android, and instead run Samsung’s own Tizen […]
Samsung today made new SDKs available to app writers seeking to target the Galaxy S5 smartphone and Gear 2 and Gear Fit smartwatches. The software developer kits, which are free to download starting today, provide developers with the tools they need to create apps for the devices. The Samsung Mobile SDK 1.5 adds APIs that […]
Samsung today announced the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, two new smartwatches that run Samsung’s Tizen operating system rather than Android. Where the original Gear device relied on Android 4.2.2 and used select Android-based apps, both the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo adopt Samsung’s home-grown, Linux-based platform. Samsung says that despite the OS […]
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